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Doping in any sport should be rewarded with a lifetime ban for showing contempt for your sport and fellow competitors.
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yeah but it proves that people are willing to risk their health, their future careers, their reputation at all levels and it is really sad.
Great story Jon, Fear and Loathing in Javelin doping, love it!
Not just amateur cycling, I was a british junior amateur javelin thrower, got some support from British Athletics and trained with the british development squad at Birchfield several nights a week. One guy that we all remember and those who still converse still talk about was ok, strong but had pooor technique. He vanished for about 7 months then came back, he was massive. Huge muscular arms and chest, he has a good deal of facial hair etc. He still had no technique but his sheer strength saw him beating everyone else.
We worked in the gym 3 nights a week, we were toned but not huge, he looked like something from flex magazine.
We were 14! We got tested at the AAA (amateur athletics assosciation) trials, never saw him compete after that. Really brought it home to me though just what lengths people will go to, none of us were going to be big stars which made it all the more worrying.
This story still seems to have some legs. http://road.cc/content/news/21016-uk-anti-doping-says-dan-staite-was-tar...
I suppose it is hitting home harder for Cambridgeshire cyclists as Dan is from round this way.
I have seen some of his comments on other forums as well...
..Team Sky are looking to appoint Neil Stephens? I know!! I was wondering about that - I thought they refused to have anything to do with anyone who has been involved in any sort of doping scandal ever. Brailsford kept going on about that - he seemed pretty adament when Team Sky first started that not one tainted foot would climb onto the Team Sky bus. So what happened??